All Star Holiday Cookies
With all of the different “All Star Holiday this and that” that the Food Network does, when I turned on All Star Holiday Cookies, I expected something different. Actually, to be clear, I expected exactly the same as all the other All Star Holiday Specials. All of the stars getting together, sharing their favorite recipes, and in the end, gathering and eating them. I must say I was disappointed, because instead, what we got was as mishmash of each of their respective shows, and the cookies they made on them. Reruns. Cookies I had seen before, year after year actually. Nothing new. And no interaction between the stars. What’s more, the average cookie dough is exactly the same. To me the show felt very repetetive, building a basic sugar cookie dough over and over again. Sure there were changes here and there, everyone has their own method, but all that really does is confuse people more. Which sugar cookie do I make? I think it would have been a lot more interesting to me if I had not already seen the recipes on the original shows on which they aired. It just seemed to me a very “cost cut”y kind of way to make a special. I look forward to new dessert recipes, and this just didn’t deliver.
Will I make the cookies? Sure, I have before. Was this a decent special for someone who wants a bunch of cookie recipes? If they are not too easily confused by too many options, absolutely. Will I watch it again? No. In my opinion a special should be, well, special.
December 10th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
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